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Leftist touts his poverty but didn’t list two apartments on a list of assets in August

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Juan Montes

Updated Nov. 7, 2016 6:34 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY—Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leading contender for Mexico’s presidency in 2018 who casts himself as an honest figure fighting a corrupt political mafia, failed to disclose two apartments he owns in his declaration of assets released in August.

The leftist recently joined growing numbers of Mexican politicians in releasing a full accounting of their wealth, following public pressure from a series of conflict-of-interest scandals that have dogged the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.